Word: pavlov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...studied by the psychologists, their behavior was interpreted anthropomorphically. The knowledge of human psychology was thrown into reverse and the animals were credited with consciousness, introspective, free will, after the German school led by Wilhelm Max Wundt. First to throw brilliant new light on the problem was Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Son of a priest in a Russian village, he was early confronted with Spirit & Mind v. Matter. Long years in scientific study got him a doctor's degree at the age of 34. Six years later, 1890, he was appointed director of the physiology department of the Institute...
Ivan Petrovitch Pavloff (Pavlov of Pawlow-take your choice of Russian transliterations), physiologist, Nobel Prizewinner and indubitably the most distinguished living scientist of Russia, sailed from New York for France, July 14, on the Majestic, after a series of mishaps that would furnish plot for a modern Comedy of Errors. He had been in America three weeks, but few, even in scientific circles, knew it until he was about to leave. Pavloff has no stomach for publicity. Scarcely had he set foot on our soil, in company with his son, Dr. Vladimir Pavloff, a professor of physics, who studied under...